The other slavery : the uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America

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The other slavery : the uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America

Title remainder

the uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America

Statement of responsibility

Andrés Reséndez

Title variation

Uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America

Creator

• Reséndez, Andrés

Author

• Reséndez, Andrés

Subject

• Indian slaves -- North America -- History
• Indian slaves -- United States -- History
• Indians of North America
• Indians of North America -- History
• Indians, Treatment of
• Indians, Treatment of -- North America -- History
• Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- History
• North America
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights
• History
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
• Slave trade
• Slave trade -- North America -- History
• Slave trade -- United States -- History
• Slavery
• Slavery -- North America -- History
• Slavery -- United States -- History
• United States
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
• Indian slaves

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in this book, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors, then forced to descend into the "mouth of hell" of eighteenth-century silver mines or, later, made to serve as domestics for Mormon settlers and rich Anglos. Reséndez builds the incisive case that it was mass slavery, more than epidemics, that decimated Indian populations across North America. New evidence, including testimonies of courageous priests, rapacious merchants, Indian captives, and Anglo colonists, sheds light too on Indian enslavement of other Indians -- as what started as a European business passed into the hands of indigenous operators and spread like wildfire across vast tracts of the American Southwest. The Other Slavery reveals a key missing piece of American history. For over two centuries we have fought over, abolished, and tried to come to grips with African-American slavery. It is time for the West to confront an entirely separate, equally devastating enslavement we have long failed truly to see

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

306.3/620973

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E98.S6

LC item number

R47 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography